Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 27, 1919, Page 1

rag —o ATIOA Weather Conditions Perfect and First Station Ships Are} Passed in Safety | NEAR PORTUGAL Member The Associated Press; United Press Dispatches ‘VOLUME 3 | Official paper of the City of | Casper and Natrona County, Wyoming. CASPER, WYOMING, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1919 NUMBER 186 PRESIDENT NOT TO RUN AGAIN, IS INTIMATION PONTA DELGADA, May 27) tation No. 11, approxi- mately 550 les ond onta elgada w. by the assed NC-4 at 1:10, New York time. ; WASHINGTON, May 27.— Announcement that the Amer- ican seaplane was expected to com- plete the trans-Atlantic flight before! sunset was the signal for an outburst; of applause in the house. “The NG-4 1s rushing toward Lis-' bon at 90 miles an hour,” declared | Representative Hicks, Republican of | New York. “This presages the suc-| cessful termination of preparations | of the American navy to be the first | to carry the flag across the seas in an airship designed by American en-| xineers, constructed by American, workmen, propelled by American mo- tors and manned by American offic- | ers.”” | Hicks announced that he hed pre- pared a bill for extending the thanks of congress to the crew of the NC-4.' arene i PONTA DELGADA, May 27.—(By Associated Press. )— With Commander A. C. Read confident ‘that he would reach the coast of , Portugal before darkness tonight, the seaplane NC-4 started for Lisbon this morning et 10:18 o’clock, Greenwich time, or 6:18 a. m., New York time. The crew boarded the plane an hour before sunrise. As the plane circled about .the harbor and headed for her destination the cheers of sail- ors and soldiers lining the decks of ships and the shrieks of whistles rose in greeting. The weather was per- fect. On the successful flight of the United States seaplane NC-4 from Ponta Delgeda to Lisbon depended the completion of the trans-Atlantic flight started from Trepassey, N. F., May 16, this seaplane being the one survivor of the three that essayed that trip. WASHINGTON, May 27.—Sta-| tion ship No. 5, more than 250 miles east of Ponta Delgada, reported that the NC-4 passed at 13:35, Greenwich time. Station six was passed at 2:05 o’clock, Greenwich time, “or 10:05 a, m., New York time. i WASHINGTON, May 27.—The| NC-4 passed station ship No. 1, 60) miles east of Ponta Delgada at 11:13 and ship No. 2, 50 miles farther east, et 11:38, Rear Admiral Jackson re- ported today. She passed ship No. | 4, or the first quarter of the trip to! Lisbon, at 12:54, averaging 70 knots | an hour. | WASHINGTON, May 27.—The| NC-4 passed station ship No. 8, more/ than half way to Lisbon at 11:16 a. m., New York time. The NC-4 passed approximately 450 mi Delgada at 4:18 p. tation No. 9,! from Ponta Greenwich | m., time, or 12:18 New York time. EXPLOSION MAY AID RECOVERY | OF MAN’S BODY Search for the body of Tim Dono- van, who was drowned in the Platte River east of Casper about a week} ago, was renewed today with added | interest because of the belief that the | explosion which wrecked the plant of | the Wyoming Torpedo company), would cause the missing body to rise | to the surface. If that fails to bring the body up the search will be defi-| nitely abandoned, as the belief that| the body was rolled into a hole on| the river bottom and then moored} down with sand will have been con-} firmed. MERCURY HITS | 87 DEGREES IN CA SPER MONDA Y| day to Newton D. Baker, secretary of New heights for spring mercurial} Mondell today, asking for an investi-| attainments were reached yesterday | when the official thermometer regis-| tered 87 degrees, according to the statement of Observer McKenzie at) the local weather station. This is the| highest point that the thermometer | has attained this early in the spring for several years. The next hottest PARIS, May 27. "It is very delightful for one thi if I may y so, to know that my pre lent Wilson in referring to Dr. Epitacio Pessoa, president- elect of Brazil, at a dinner tion last night. uppose no more delicate task is given any man than to interpret the feelings and purposes of a great people. I know I may speak for myself that the chief anxiety I had was to be a true interpreter of national spirit, expressing no private and peculiar views, but trying to express the general spirit of a nation. “And the nation looks to the president to do that; and the com- radeship of an evening like this does not consist merely in neigh- fj) borhood. We are neighbors. We have been friends. That is old. }! Something new has happened. ! “I am not sure I can put it into | words but there has been added to the common principles which have united Americans time out of mind a feeling that the world at large hag accepted these principles, that there has gone a thrill of hope, of expectation, throughout the na- tions of the world which seems to have a source and fountain in the things we have always believed in. It is as if the pure waters of the fountains we had always drunk had been put to the lips of all peoples, and they had drunk and been re- freshed. “It is a delightful thought to be- lieve that these are the fountains which sprang up out of the soil of America, not suggesting or be- lieving that political liberty had || LONDON, May 27.—Hawker an- its birth in the American hemi-|j/nounced that he would try again to sphere, because it had not, but a fj cross the Atlantic and thinks he will peculiar expression of the char- || succeed. acteristic of modern time, that broad republicanism, that genuine feeling and practice of democracy becoming characteristic of the modern world, did have its origin in America; and the response of the peoples of the world to this new expression is, we may perhaps pride ourselves on the response to American suggestion.’’ BRITISH FLIERS NATIONAL IDOLS BY THE PUBLIC Hawker and Grieve Are Carried Thru Streets by Admir- ing Crowds ’ (Ry United Prens) LONDON, May 27.—Hawker and Grieve, proceeding to London today, were acclaimed as conquering hero Their reception here tonight probably will equal any ever accorded a na- tional idol. The Edinburg crowds _ elevated Hawker to their shoulders and he was borne in triumph through the streets. Mrs. Hawker will join her husband at Granthan. Hawker said his engine began to heat five hours from Newfoundland. The trouble continued all night. ———— == | About dawn Hawker decided he must land. He searched the sea for ships, saw the Mary and alighted near her. | sea for 20 days and knew nothing of It i the flight and were astonished at see- ing a biplane descending from the clouds. and Finnish Reds hold Petrograd, having overthrown the soviet Sint opperenty’ decid ss |ZTALIANS SENT aa | TO ASIA: MINOR ARE WITHDRAWN (By Associated Press.) record was attained the day previous when the weather man reported 83} degrees as record heat. | Excessive heat, burning winds and, laxity of water is causing a shortage| PARIS, May 27.—Italian troops of range grass and unless there is; who occupied Sokia, 50 miles south- plenty of rainfall in the immediate,east of Smyrna in Asia Minor, re- future, stockmen and woolmen in this; embarked on their transports, turn- vicinity must face perplexing prob-|fng the control over to the Turkish lems. | militery authorities. ° > CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 27.—,; When the 40th division was sent in favor of eastern over western! tained a large number of Wyoming soldiers, and of unfairness in the|men. Some time after its arrival in war department’s dealing with Wyo-| France it was split up, and about half ming men, are contained in a letter, of it put into the 77th (‘‘Liberty’”’) sent by Governor Robert D. Carey to-| division. This latter organization had been shot up in action, and its casual- ties, combined with other drains, has left it with only about one-third of its original membership of drafted men from New York. By virtue of the reorganization two-thirds of the re- built division was made up of the war. The governor also took up the matter with Congressman Frank W. gation of the charges he makes. His action was in response to protests from all over the state against the alleged lack of a square deal. | westerners and some southerners. This is the story, as told to Mr.| The 77th, ordered home early this Carey by returning soldiers whom he spring, arrived in New York April personally knows and in whom he has| 25. Subsequently the privates were confidence. | interviewed by their top sergeants as which was located in a dug-out along the river bank east of Casper. | One of the dead men is Mack WESTERN SOLDIERS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST John Wilson, manager of the local branch of the torpedo company, had just made 400 quarts of nitro- glycerine yesterday afternoon and had placed it in the storage house, | McCoy of Thermopolis who drove jhere yesterday to get the nitro, ; which was to be used in shooting wells in the vicinity of Thermopolis. | There were a number of near eye- | witnesses to the explosion as sev- leral Casper people were at the Mc- |Pherson rig, in the vicinity of the nitro” plant, when the explosion oc-| | curred. | According to statements obtained, \two men driving a Reo truck were | |seen at the plant about three min-| | utes before the explosion occurred. |It is presumed that it happened just | {as the men opened the doors of the | plant. Shortly after the explosion had been located by a hage cloud of smoke which arose over the vicinity, \the Yellowstone highway and other toads leading to the scene were jam- med with vehicles crowded with curious spectators enroute to the scene of the grewsome accident. Hundredg_ pasticipated in the search for meens of identification of the victims but_altho an ‘exhaustive hunt was made, nothing could be found to serve as a source of iden- tification. Hundreds of bits of flesh and bits of human anatomy were found within a radius of a quarter of a mile of the explosion. Pieces of machinery, the largest of which would not have weighed 100 pounds merked all that remained of the Reo truck which was to be used in hauling the explosive to Thermopolis. These pieces were scattered for a radius of over half a mile, Trees for hundreds of feet along the bank were sheared of their branches, and great excavations in the ground marked the terrific force of the explosion. The identified victim, Mack Mc- Coy, was a well shooter for the Western Torpedo company of Ther- mopolis, and had just driven here yesterday to get a supply of glycer- ine. He is survived by a wife and two children, in Thermopolis, and a brother, J. R. McCoy, an oil field worker, who is at present in Casper. The cause of the explosion prob-, ably never will be knowr many theories having been advanced as the probable cause. Among the theo- ties accepted is thet it was either roncussion from the opening of the doors, heat of the evening sun, or NITRO BLAST BLOWS TWO MEN TO ATOMS AND ROCKS CASPER ‘Mack McCoy of Thermovolis-and Unknown Companion Victims of Tragic Death Enacted With Explosion of Storage Mag- azine Two Miles East; Evidence Obliterated At least two men and a Reo auto truck were blown to atoms shortly after 8 o’clock last work,” Scheidemann s night when a nitro-glycerine storage magazine of the Wyoming Torpedo Company, two miles ™2 people are like the east of Casper, exploded with such force to be felt for several miles, breaking many windows in the buildings in the business district of Casper and rocking the town like a small earth- quake. Mack McCoy, age 51, of Thermopolis, is known to have been one of the victims of the blast, while the identity of the other man still remains a mvstery. DANIELS FLOPS ON GREAT NAVY IDEA, ADVISES GIVING IT U Must Show Faith in League Covenant Congress Is Told by Secretary (hy United Press.) WASHINGTON, May 27.—Aban- donment of the big navy program was recommended to the house naval af- fairs committee today by Secretary Daniels. The United States should show its faith in the League of Na- covenant by eliminating the tions’ program submitted to the last con- gress, which would havé made the American navy second to none, Daniels said. “America has only two c either to build the biggest na the world or we must have a League of Nations,” Daniels said. He said he had ‘assurance from Premier Lloyd George and other Al- lied statesmen that they are planning to follow the lead of the United States and that “it was a wiser policy not to enter on any la construc- tion program until the league meets.” Daniels’ stand is a direct ,reversa of his recommendations last Decem- ber. . : ee SS AUSTRIANS WILL RECEIVE TERMS OM FRIDAY NOON (Ry United Prexs.) PARIS, May 27.—Peace terms will be submitted to the Austrian dele- gates at a formal si sion at St, Ger- — main Friday noon, it was officially (Continued on Page Eight) to whether or not they wished to | (Special.) —Charges of discriminatior | overseas from Camp Kearney it con-| parade in New York City, and by | practically a unanimous vote the westerners in the ranks replied that they did not. | But the parade was held in spite of their protests. What amounted al- most to force was used to get the men from Wyoming and other west- ern states to march through the metropolis in the guise of ‘New | York’s own.” The parade was held May 6, and, to hear the papers in that | city tell it, something like five million | people went wild over what they thot, lor were led to think, were “their own.” Immediately after the big doings the New York men were singled out announced today. GOVERNOR ASKS SOLONS TO PROBE CHARGES and sent to Camp Upton, where they were discharged Mav 8—two days after the parade. The men from Wyoming and the west were sent to Camp Mills, and held there until May 14, when they were sent to Fort D. A. Russell, Cheyenne. They did not get their discharges until May 22— exactly two weeks after the New Yorkers had been mustered out, and not quite one month after the arrival from overseas. On the day of the parade Major General Alexander, commanding the division, made a brilliant speech, complimenting the ‘(New Yorkers” on their splendid record and congratu- lating their “neighbors” on that re- cord. Some of those who heard and f the matter directly ACCEPTANCE OF PEACE TERMS TO CALL FOR OPPORTUNITY TO WORK OUT SALVATION, AVERS GERMAN Immediate Admission Into League Asked in Counter Proposal; Germans Like Jews When Moses Led Them, Claim 1 (By United Press.) BERLIN, May 27.—Chancellor Scheidemann informed the United Press today that Germany's counter proposals demand immediate ad- mission to the league, agree to restoration of French territory, full reparation for ruined coal mines, agree to respect Belgium’s claims, zccepts the limitation of 100,000 for the German army and expresses a willingness to complete disarmament on land and sea, provided the other nations agree likewise. “We can do all these things only aying for them thru k are provided,” said Scheide- nn. He asserted that it would be diffi- cult to restore German _ industries when vast quantities of coal must be imported and when most of the east- ern productive provinces are torn F from the fatherland without the lege of self-determination. “One dare not take the tools from a people and then demand that thi id COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS GIVEN G.0.P. APPROVAL ( (By Annociated WASHINGTON, May 27.—Repub- vhen jlican senators, meeting in open con- Moses led them.’ They f TS’ ference today, reaffirmed the appro- in the wilderness but they must not yal of selections for standing com- perish in it.’’ mittees made by the committee on —_——_ committees. The big four to- consideration of tk There are still many Sins vnescarestine? WANK MARINES e it consider G n pri me.) PARIS, M ¥ continued ustrian treat incomplete s is necessary to counter’ propos y that the Austrian tr nished before Saturday, and possibly next week. It stubbornness regarding | PARIS, — British and ing the American marines ve landed at ns are Danzig, says a Warsaw dispatch. A also dela Ita Adriatic claims is Austrian treaty. The again threatening to withdraw. powerful ellied fleet will be an- = — , chored off the harbor there. VICTORY BONDS aye SELL NEAR PAR ‘SUPPLIES AND ON FIRST DAY’ MONEY WILL BE SENT TO OMSK (iy A Preaw.) PARIS, May —The council of four and Japan have offered Ad- miral Kolchak, head of the Omsk gov- ; [Ry Axnocrnted Press] | NEW YORK, May 27.—Victory bonds were sold today for the first time on the stock exchange, bring ing $99.90 per $100. i ernment, money and supplies _ to cee aoe maintain the all-Russian government provided he promises to hold elec- tions for a constituent assembly as soon as he reaches Moscow. oa i | '" TO VISIT U. $ —— | . 2 Commander of Denver Camp NEXT OCTOBER Comes to Casper to-Officiate in | Launching Spanish War Vets | | \, PARIS, May 27.—Premier Lloyd George is considering favorably a Organization Here. proposal from the American peace delegetion that he visit America this year. The premier may go to the j United States, especially to attend. the first meeting of the League of Na- tions in Washington in October. SEMI-LUXURIES TAX REPEAL IS LIKELY, REPORT WASHINGTON, May 27.—The house ways and means committee has unanimously ordered a favorable report on the resolution repealing the so-called semi-luxury taxes in the war revenue bill. ee 148TH F. A. NOW SCHEDULED FOR EARLY CONVOY The 148th field artillery, the per- sonnel of which is made up to a great , extent of Wyoming men is due for early convoy home according to a re- cent statement from the war depart- ment. This information was received in Casper yesterday evening by Post- master W. W. Sproul, from Senator John B. Kendrick, who had taken up with General | The Caspar Collins camp, United panish War veterans, will be in-/ led with simple ceremonies at the courthouse this evening by Jack E illwell, commander of Henry W. 1, of Denver, Colo ed in Casper this Colorado capital Mr. Stillwell a morning from the and in addition to his services in the Spanish American war has a record of service in France with the A. E. F. The local camp is the first to be formally organized and launched in the state of Wyoming and will prob- ably be the forerunner of others lo- cated in central districts. The Casper camp will have an initial membership of approximately 40 and others are expected to affiliate after permanent standing has been effected. Prospec e held out that Casper may be sel d for a state encamp- ment of Spanish war veterans next year and members Will work to that end. Officers recently elected and pre- viously announced will be installed this evening. applauded the general might have been surprised to learn that, as a Pershing. matter of fact, the New Yorkers were = in the minority, and that a good share SUE RIFF ABLE of the division’s glory was due to the) presence of thousands of men from, FOR DUTY AGAIN the far west. -_ Sheriff Pat Royce, who has been Twenty*three of the Wyoming men absent from his office for the past concerned in the proceedings were two weeks, having recently unders from Rock Springs; others were from gone a serious operation at a local various towns over the state. All/hospital, was back on the job at the AND SUCCESS SEEMS CERTAIN have now returned to their homes courthouse this morning and reports |) from Fort Russell, and their folks that he is feeling better than ever, are beginning to hear about the He will make part day stays at the strange actions of the authorities in office for a few days until he coms {pletely regains his strength. a the east.